Re: Mounting partition as fs

["Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)" <sumo.wrestler.0rj82m+no.spam.abuse@earthlink.net>]

Gregory Baker wrote:
>> [...]
> > I need to mount the XP partition in Linux so that I can point apt-get to it
> > and load the packages from the .iso s. Could someone suggest a mount syntax
> > that should allow me to do this? 

mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro /NTFS/disk1.iso /mnt

> > [...]
> > I'd also like to know - since I'm doing this for testing purposes - is there
> > any harm in simply installing all the available packages? I have about 100
> > GB to play with on the Linux partition.

Some packages conflict with the others. I guess you could install all of 
the tasks.